Frame corner



Patented July 8, 1924.

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FRAME comm.

Application filed March 26, 1923. Serial No. 627,931.

T'o 'ail whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Crmmins E. KLINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cedar Springs, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Frame Corners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in appliances for drawing together, and securing the corners of frames, as picture frames and the like, and its objects are: first, to provide a means whereby the corners of a frame may be drawn together very rigidly and firmly without a great loss of time; second, to provide a means whereby the frame may be properly and securely assembled without the necessity of nailing or gluing; third, to provide a means whereby the frame may be securely assembled and the surfaces of the sides and ends of the frame may be exactly adjusted without hammering, taking the frame to pieces, or materially loosening the securing elements; fifth, to provide a means whereby the frame may be, at any time, taken to pieces and re assembled without danger of marring the finest finished frames; six, to provide a means whereby the securing elements may be readily and conveniently covered and wholly hidden from view, and, seventh, to provide a means whereby the coverings for the securing elements may be readily and conveniently removed and replaced without the necessity of using screws, nails, or other securing elements than the several parts of the cover. I

I attain these objects by the several elements and their peculiar distribution shown in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a plan of the two upper corners of a picture frame with my appliances in place, and, also, showing the covers in place in two places, with the side removed to disclose the position of the appliance within said cover. Fig. 2 is a side view of the cover, and Fig. 3 is a bottom, or inside view of the same, the two latter views being disconnected from the implement and frame to more readily disclose its form and manner of application to the frame and its corner supports.

Similar reference numerals indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

In the accompanying drawing 1 represents an ordinary picture frame, and 11,

represents the miter joints at the corners ofthe frame. 2 represents the main elementin my corner bracket, which consists of a metal corner piece with the lnner surfaces positioned at exact right angles with each other, and the outer surfaces positioned at right angles with the'corner rounded to render this part of the appliance more sightly than it would be if the corners were gether very strongly and, in case the frame should shrink sufficiently to become loose at the corners it is a simple matter to draw them as firmly together as desired with the screws or stove bolt 4.

As this appliance, with the screws left in plain view would be very unsightly I have provided for covering them by'making laterally positioned slots, 5, in the outer surface of the corner pieces 2 into which the turned down end, 7, of the cover 6 may be passed to form an anchorage for this end of the cover, and the other end of the cover is passed inwardly, practically at a right angle with the back of the cover and forms a spring catch to hold this end of the cover in place by engagement with the head 8 of the screw 4. Ihus, to apply the cover it is simply necessary to enterthe edge 7 into the slot 5 and press the other end of the cover over the head of the screw and it is safely in place. The circle at 8 indicates an ornamental end that may be utilized, first, as an ornament, and second, as a handle with which to remove the cover.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new in the art, is:

1. In combination with the sides and ends of a picture frame, metal corner pieces made with the inner surfaces positioned at an exact right angle and having a screw threaded hole in each end longitudinally of the bodies of the corner piece, standards set into openings made laterally into the edges of the sides and ends of the frame, said standards extending outwardly from the edges of the frame members and having a hole through the projecting end laterally for the free passage of a screw, and a screw passed through said opening and screwed into the longitudinal openings in the ends of the corner pieces.

2. In combination with the elements coveredin claim 1, the outer surface and corner of the corner pieces ornamentally formed, substantially as shown and described.

In combination with the elements covered in claim 1, the corner pieces provided with laterally positioned slots in their outer surfaces, a sheetmetal cover having one end bent at an operative angle with the back to be made to engage the slots in the outer surfaces of the corner pieces, the opposite end of each of said covers bent at a proper angle with the back to be made to spring over the heads of the screws and secure the cover in place, and the sides of said cover positioned at right angles with the backs and in position to cover the sides of the screws and the standards.

4. In combination with the elements covered in claim 1, a cover arranged to fully conceal the screw and standard, and an ornamental handle thereon by means of which the cover may be readily removed and replaced upon the corners.

Signed at Grand Rapids, Michigan, March CHARLES E. KLINE. 

